From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jan 24 2: 0:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E9A937B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 02:00:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0OA05j02120; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 02:00:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 02:00:05 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200101241000.f0OA05j02120@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Cc: From: "Koster, K.J." Subject: Re: alpha/23064: Alphas do not boot if `a' (/) partition isn't at a lower offset than `b' (swap) Reply-To: "Koster, K.J." Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR alpha/23064; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Koster, K.J." To: "'freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org'" Cc: "'wilko@FreeBSD.org'" , "Koster, K.J." Subject: Re: alpha/23064: Alphas do not boot if `a' (/) partition isn't at a lower offset than `b' (swap) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:56:56 +0100 Dear Wilko, While I appreciate your janitorial :) efforts, I would like to ask you to reopen this PR. The reason for me to open the PR was that it may scare off the Alpha-newbies. Since this is an Alpha-specific problem, perhaps /stand/sysinstall should have a warning if someone on an Alpha wants to shoot himself in the foot. (Just a warning, because if people need their foot shot off they should be able to do it). Something along the lines of: "Gee, looks like you're going to create a non-booting disk layout, are you sure you want to do that?" (I'm sure you can download an appropriate ASCII-art paperclip from microsoft.com) This is a similar case as the >1024 cylinder install, which was a PC BIOS issue. I believe /stand/sysinstall had a warning in place for that issue. Kees Jan ================================================ You are only young once, but you can stay immature all your life. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message